Too Much To Dream

and while you are at it, pull out yer dog eared copy of "the population bomb" by paul erlich for a few hundred chuckles.

it is impossible to take these so called protectors of mommy earth seriously because every time they are proved wrong they just shift the debate. when erlich's theories about what the population explosion would do to mankind have proven to be pure idiocy from a drooling idiot, those who subscribed to those theories switched to the concept of "sustainable resources".

it is all such a shell game...its enough to make a drunk weep....so weep i shall....

An ice age, at least in North America and Europe, is in fact a consequence of global warming. The hypothesis surrounding this is based on the idea that fresh, cold water from melting polar ice caps will dilute the gulf stream, thereby preventing warmer air from the south from coming up north. I talked about this about a month ago here.

An ice age, at least in North America and Europe, is in fact a consequence of global warming. The hypothesis surrounding this is based on the idea that fresh, cold water from melting polar ice caps will dilute the gulf stream, thereby preventing warmer air from the south from coming up north. I talked about this about a month ago here.

Hmm... sorry Andrea--I don't know how two of those got posted.

It was about 3 degrees farhenheit this morning as I walked to my JAVA programming class.

We're all doomed! I say party!

Hmmm...hard to see how a global ice age and global warming can happen simultaneously, unless your definition of "warming" is extremely loose.

But that's not why I'm here. I'm here to say "brrrr" and also to express my smug satisfaction that I'm south of Andrea, if only by 20 miles or so. I just picked a couple of hundred red grapefruit, Andrea. In the wind and cold. I can testify that Yankees, once immersed in the Florida climate for several years, become cold weather wimps.

I'm STILL waiting for snow in Tallahassee. I wonder when the last time was that that happened. All the natives would completely freak out. Too bad this cold is so dry. And yeah, if I was home in Boston this would be soooooooo nothing.

David P. -

It wouldn't be a global ice age. Just a "little ice age" in North America and Europe. Not on the scale to make the glaciers come back in real force or anything. We had something similar to it a few hundred years ago. We'd get through it. It's not an apocalyptic thing.

I'm holding out for snow in Florida. Real snow, not little crystals that melt in midair. (We have received some of that on occasion.)

David P. - Yankees don't have to be immersed in a warm climate to become cold weather wimps:) I've lived up here (in Indiana) my entire life - and with temperatures in the negatives with wind chill for the past few days, I've been staying inside under a blanket whenever possible.

I wish I was in Florida!

Amazing how quickly we go from a 'Cooling Trend' to Global Warming. Perhaps next decade can be the 'Monsoon Terror' ? And after that the 'Drought Peroid'?

The Great Asteroid Crash. Or: Locusts! Everywhere!

Just to cheer you all up, it was 41 Celcius (think that is about 105 F) in Adelaide today, and same again tomorrow.

This isn't global warming, mind you. Just a normal Aussie Summer.

Yikes! Keep cool down there.

I was brought up in Northern Indiana. Notre Dame country, which is about as cold as it gets in that fair state. I remember one Christmas it got to 100 below (windchill; air temp was -35) and we all had to stay home from church.

But now all that acclimatization has worn off. Either that, or my wardrobe's not prepared.

David P.,

Is this when we break into the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch again? I mean, we used to DREAM of -100 temperatures. Would've been a week on the Riviera to us. Etc., etc., ad nauseam. ;-)

Yah, I remember one day twuz so culled me ears froze clean off. Had to thaw em out fer tu ahrs n then stable em back on.